For my personal essay, some difficulties I believe that I may encounter revolve around making my personal experience entertaining and relevant for the reader to continue and enjoy reading. When I read “Running in the Family” by Michael Ondaatje, I felt that it was not interesting whatsoever. I did not want to continue reading it because the question “so what?” keeping on running in the back of my mind, after every story told. For my personal essay, I would like to find a way to make it more relatable and thought provoking. This may come as a challenge to me because it can be difficult to find a personal experience that can contain meaning and relevance to a wide variety of readers. I would like to write about a personal experience that relies
